>If one presumes that Adam was at the apex of humanity, which I admit has
>been the traditional understanding, and Adam ushers in "the image" to all
>his progeny, then, of course, Homo erectus would be in the image of God.
>But what I would like to know is whose line would they come under; Ham,
>Shem or Japheth?
All of them. I would like to point out that if you exclude brother/sister
marriage then within about 3 generation, everyone is a descendant of
everyone in a family of only 3 founding families. The lines below are all
possible matings between the 3 families for 3 generations if brother/sister
marriages are excluded and most societies do prohibit those.
shem japheth Ham
child child child
|\ /|\ /|
| \/ | \/ |
| / \ | / \ |
gchild gchild gchild
|\ /|\ /|
| \/ | \/ |
| / \ | / \ |
ggchild ggchild ggchild
What this would mean is that we are ALL descended from ALL families. There
is no us/them issue here.
glenn
Foundation, Fall and Flood
http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm